Speaker 1: We can started off like, we owe you an apology.
Speaker 2: We didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't.
Speaker 3: Uh, we didn't realize your game was what it is,
Speaker 3: Harper were for everybody watching right now, we're supposed to
Speaker 3: have his girlfriend, Harper on who was the number one
Speaker 3: recruit in the country coming out for volleyball Big Ten
Speaker 3: Player of the Year, thirteen All American.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Gatorade Nation, Gatorade un National Player of the Year
Speaker 4: coming out of high school, won a gold medal with
Speaker 4: the U nine nineteen coming out of high school.
Speaker 2: I mean just killed it.
Speaker 1: Familiar with your game, man, how'd you land that? A
Speaker 1: lot of I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't have a lot of practice with that, but
Speaker 5: I guess just a lucky shot.
Speaker 1: No, the story how you met, we got to hear
Speaker 1: how what did you shoot? A DM? What was though?
Speaker 5: So I've been really close with the volleyball girls since
Speaker 5: since I got here. Okay, so then like Ali Baiting
Speaker 5: Norse and a Lexi Rodriguez, it was awesome, awesome libarro
Speaker 5: and then so when Harper got here, I mean, my boys,
Speaker 5: we hang out with the volleyball girls and Harper shows
Speaker 5: up and then just I don't know, I just kind
Speaker 5: of spent my game and it worked.
Speaker 4: I guess saw that six' to two statue Walking you're, like, oh,
Speaker 4: yeah what's it?
Speaker 1: Like is it?
Speaker 6: Is?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 6: Is?
Speaker 3: It is it painful knowing that we're more so volleyball
Speaker 3: school now than a football.
Speaker 5: School, yeah it's fun, sometimes but then you're also, LIKE
Speaker 5: i would like to balance it out a little bit.
Speaker 5: Here you, Know, YEAH i love them getting, recognition but
Speaker 5: at the same, time you know we want to bring
Speaker 5: restore the BALANCE i have.
Speaker 3: To, indeed, indeed right Ale, OFF i Know, delaney he's
Speaker 3: always a master coming up with.
Speaker 4: Him, no just you, know me playing tight end AND
Speaker 4: i saw that you play one game of tight. End
Speaker 4: but being one of the first in state quarterbacks to
Speaker 4: sign With nebraska since WHAT i want to say with
Speaker 4: to know when was? That how long has it? Been
Speaker 4: it was PROBABLY i think two thousand and. One, yeah
Speaker 4: since an in state quarterback has signed With. Nebraska so
Speaker 4: being able to do, that but in getting going out,
Speaker 4: there starting quarterback get.
Speaker 2: Hurt you play one game with tight? End tell us about.
Speaker 5: That, Yeah so all through last spring and summer in fall,
Speaker 5: camp you, Know i've been the backup To, jeff and you,
Speaker 5: Know jeff was you, know Love, jeff he's an awesome.
Speaker 5: Guy And, chubba those are two of my best friends.
Speaker 1: Forever but Then jeff goes.
Speaker 5: Out you, know we Lose, minnesota Lose, colorado And jeff
Speaker 5: has an ankle. Injury but, Yeah minnesota, week they just
Speaker 5: wanted to get me the ball a couple of, times
Speaker 5: just trying to use my, abilities you, know they didn't
Speaker 5: want me on the bench and just you, know keeping
Speaker 5: the keeping it.
Speaker 1: Warm so big, athlete get him out.
Speaker 5: There, Yeah so that's that was the tight end role
Speaker 5: for one.
Speaker 4: Game you don't see a lot of quarterbacks being able
Speaker 4: to transition to that type of position playing tight end
Speaker 4: because that's a physical. Position you got to be able
Speaker 4: to catch the, ball be able to take. Hits you
Speaker 4: don't see that nowadays with. Quarterbacks come, on.
Speaker 2: Are you is the easiest position on the?
Speaker 1: Field are?
Speaker 2: You what do you?
Speaker 5: Think so it's it's hard for me because like it's
Speaker 5: LIKE i never sat in a tight end.
Speaker 2: Meeting.
Speaker 5: Yep like for, me it was like two days before the,
Speaker 5: game they're, like, hey, like we know you know the
Speaker 5: plays and you you know you're athletic enough to run the.
Speaker 5: Routes you, know do you think if we put you
Speaker 5: in in a certain, situation you'd be able to just
Speaker 5: go out and run, it like, yeah LIKE i, Understand
Speaker 5: like it's like that one it's supposed to look like
Speaker 5: a slice block coming across and then get over the
Speaker 5: top of the d. End, Yep so LIKE i understand
Speaker 5: like how to attack the d end and then get
Speaker 5: over the. Top, so you, know a lot of that
Speaker 5: was just natural instinct of you, know seeing reps that many,
Speaker 5: times and you, know watching. Guys you, know we've got
Speaker 5: some good tight ends, Here we've had some good, ones
Speaker 5: so watching them and then just.
Speaker 1: Being able to translate, it.
Speaker 2: Did you not was you not?
Speaker 4: Nervous JUST i, mean like you, said you've never been
Speaker 4: in a tight end meeting room the day of the.
Speaker 4: Game two days before the, game they asked you can
Speaker 4: you play tight? End what was your nerves is like
Speaker 4: going out there knowing that you a, quarterback a great
Speaker 4: quarterback playing tight? End, Now, YEAH i MEAN i was
Speaker 4: just excited to get the. BALL i mean it was,
Speaker 4: LIKE i think it was like third and four or.
Speaker 4: SOMETHING i was, like, oh like it was LIKE i
Speaker 4: think it's second, Quarter like we could you, know first
Speaker 4: down right? Here could you, know swing the game a little,
Speaker 4: bit get, it get us some momentum against you, know
Speaker 4: a Good minnesota. Team so you, know going out, THERE.
Speaker 5: I was JUST i was kind of just excited to
Speaker 5: get the ball BECAUSE i Knew, jeff that's my, Boy
Speaker 5: Like he's gonna throw me the, ball no matter If
Speaker 5: i'm covering a lot. Exactly SO i had a feeling,
Speaker 5: like no matter what, Happened jeff was gonna flop me
Speaker 5: the ball.
Speaker 3: There so take us to uh when your number gets
Speaker 3: called to be the starting quarterback and take over that.
Speaker 1: Job, yeah so what your emotions were like how that went.
Speaker 2: Down especially him being your boy and all of.
Speaker 5: That, Yeah So, colorado you, know a rough, game AND
Speaker 5: i Think jeff just kind of got in his own
Speaker 5: head a little, bit and you, know he AND.
Speaker 1: I talked a little bit about that through the.
Speaker 5: Season jeff helped me so, much you, know, Mentally and
Speaker 5: so he goes down with an ankle injury and late
Speaker 5: and fourth quarter Against, colorado and so THEN i get
Speaker 5: in you, know that's really my first time playing quarterback
Speaker 5: in a live game since high, School so you, know
Speaker 5: get in there just kind of do my. Thing LIKE
Speaker 5: i was just at that, POINT i was, like, screw
Speaker 5: Like i'm just gonna Do, Like i'm just gonna do.
Speaker 1: Me.
Speaker 5: Yeah SO i was just running hard as, hell you,
Speaker 5: know like just trying to truck, someone, honestly and then
Speaker 5: ended up throwing my first touchdown ever my Guy Thomas
Speaker 5: fedoni as like the clock expired Against. Colorado but then
Speaker 5: going through that next, week you know that after That colorado,
Speaker 5: GAME i was, Like i'm gonna prepare Like i'm the starter,
Speaker 5: Now like this IS i feel like this is my,
Speaker 5: season it's my. Team like that's How i'm gonna. Prepare
Speaker 5: if that's not how it shakes, out, fine but like
Speaker 5: this is my, Opportunity i'm gonna take.
Speaker 1: It so Then Northern illinois, week.
Speaker 5: Just tried to lock in as much AS i, can and,
Speaker 5: like you, Know i'd watch some great some great quarterbacks before,
Speaker 5: Me Adrian, martinez you know Obviously, jeff so just watch.
Speaker 5: Them but being coming out here there is there was
Speaker 5: two parts of, me like the kid that you, Know
Speaker 5: i've been in the stands SINCE i was. BORN i
Speaker 5: got pictures of my dad holding me like in the
Speaker 5: stands and like you, know watching you you, know watching like,
Speaker 5: that you, know twenty ten twenty, eleven twenty, Twelve, like
Speaker 5: those are those are like the core MEMORIES i have Of. Nebraska,
Speaker 5: so you, know being able to run out there and
Speaker 5: knowing Like i'm the starting. Quarterback you, know all my
Speaker 5: buddies back in, carneiye you, know everyone's texting me and
Speaker 5: you know it's it's pretty.
Speaker 1: Sweet so the emotions WERE i had to kind.
Speaker 5: Of tamp them out a little bit to make sure
Speaker 5: we got our first one of the.
Speaker 1: Season, now yeah from the home, CROWD i bet that was. Lit.
Speaker 4: Bro SO i know your dad played fullback For, nebraska
Speaker 4: AND i know you had a chance to go To Boston, College,
Speaker 4: Vanderbilt North Carolina.
Speaker 2: State is that why you Chose?
Speaker 4: Nebraska because of the ties that you had your family
Speaker 4: have With? Nebraska AND i wanted to ask you ABOUT
Speaker 4: nil deals as, Well like was that a?
Speaker 2: Bit was that a? Factor would you coming To nebraska as? Well?
Speaker 5: Yeah so WHEN i, committed like, nil like we still
Speaker 5: had no idea that was going to become a.
Speaker 1: Thing, Okay like that was still like they were.
Speaker 5: Like in The Supreme court or something like we had
Speaker 5: no clue like if they were going to pass it or. Not,
Speaker 5: Right so but, yeah a big part of that of
Speaker 5: me coming here was you, know this is where my dad.
Speaker 5: Played you, know his career got cut. Short he severed
Speaker 5: a nerve in his. Neck you, know it was like
Speaker 5: paralyzed for like ten, minutes like scary. Stuff and so
Speaker 5: part of that was me like thinking like how CAN
Speaker 5: i carry on like his, legacy like the chance that
Speaker 5: he never, Got like IF i get, it LIKE i
Speaker 5: have to take. It SO i was part of. It and,
Speaker 5: also you, Know Coach fraud recruited really, well AND i
Speaker 5: loved what he what he. Offered you, know he's a
Speaker 5: he was a great he was a great. Coach you,
Speaker 5: Know i'm sad things didn't work out with, him but
Speaker 5: love where we're at With coachool as.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah what do you what's your favorite thing About Coach?
Speaker 3: Rule it's gonna be a two. Parter what's your favorite
Speaker 3: thing and what's your least favorite thing?
Speaker 6: About uh, yeah, Yep i'd say my favorite thing is
Speaker 6: like he his standards are like HOW i was, Raised
Speaker 6: like everything you do like needs.
Speaker 5: To be, disciplined, relentless like you have to bring that
Speaker 5: every single day and everything you. Do and so like
Speaker 5: that part's easy for, Me and so like being able
Speaker 5: to see like my childhood like HOW i was raised
Speaker 5: translate into the, field you, know into the meeting. Rooms
Speaker 5: that's that's awesome for. Me and then least, Favorite, OH
Speaker 5: i guess my pet peeve. HIM i think it's just
Speaker 5: like sometimes like he loves just like he's Like i'm
Speaker 5: just gonna talk for just a little bit, here and next,
Speaker 5: thing you, know it's like fifteen. Minutes like my class
Speaker 5: is starting in like two minutes or.
Speaker 1: Something it's, like, okay, Man like he's long winded with
Speaker 1: the speeches.
Speaker 5: Sometimes, yeah but like if we, die we die when
Speaker 5: a little too viral.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah BUT i mean that's the crazy part is like
Speaker 5: those things like they come straight as far AS i,
Speaker 5: know they come straight from the, heart like right off the.
Speaker 1: Dome so like he's not.
Speaker 5: Like scripting him before games or. Practices like when he's
Speaker 5: talking like he means it.
Speaker 1: Right so that part's really.
Speaker 4: COOL i was just going to ask you who do
Speaker 4: you look up, to like sport, wise parent, wise like
Speaker 4: who who's your role? Model who who gave you the
Speaker 4: courage to be able to be where you at?
Speaker 5: Today, YEAH i mean i'd say so like coming out
Speaker 5: of like a small mid size high school in the
Speaker 5: middle Of. Nebraska you, KNOW i had never been to
Speaker 5: a quarterback. Coach you, KNOW i just kind of just
Speaker 5: raw dog in, it Like i'm just out here balling.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: Yeah and SO i mean there's two guys, that like
Speaker 5: WHEN i was in high, SCHOOL i MEAN I i
Speaker 5: think it was middle school When Josh allen was was in,
Speaker 5: College LIKE i remember watching him play here and you
Speaker 5: Know Nate gary like throw.
Speaker 1: The ball back at. Him.
Speaker 5: Yeah but So Josh allen was, one and then Like
Speaker 5: Justin herbert was another. One like both those guys like
Speaker 5: they were overlooked and now they're like some of the.
Speaker 1: Superstars in THE. Nfl.
Speaker 5: Yeah and on top of, that you, KNOW i try
Speaker 5: to model my game after. Them so those are two,
Speaker 5: guys i'd, say, ATHLETICALLY i try, to you, know emulate
Speaker 5: some of my game After what what do.
Speaker 3: You feel like last year when you were, thrusted kind
Speaker 3: of thrust it in and you, said LIKE i switch one,
Speaker 3: OFF i Got i'm gonna start, preparing Like i'm the
Speaker 3: start of this is my, job all the things going
Speaker 3: on back from like everybody that came room for. Me
Speaker 3: it's The nebraska your favorite. Team what do you feel
Speaker 3: like was the biggest learning curve for you once you
Speaker 3: started getting in that live.
Speaker 1: Action.
Speaker 5: YEAH i, mean so the first two, games you, know
Speaker 5: they were a group of five teams and nothing against
Speaker 5: group of, Five like those are good, schools but not
Speaker 5: quite the physicality of The Big. Ten you, know you
Speaker 5: Playing Northern, ILLINOIS i THINK i rushed for LIKE i
Speaker 5: had a seventy five yard call back Against louisian. ATTACH
Speaker 5: i would had like two twenty five rushing Against louisian.
Speaker 1: Attack, yeah, like, yeah we dugged those.
Speaker 5: Boys but but so like those two games WERE i,
Speaker 5: MEAN i was, like, damn this is kind of. Cake
Speaker 5: and then you, know we go and then we Have,
Speaker 5: michigan and then you, Know michigan was you, know that
Speaker 5: was kind of eye, opening like LIKE i don't, know
Speaker 5: it was, Different like it didn't feel like like we
Speaker 5: got like beat, down like, physically it was just like
Speaker 5: things like just didn't go our.
Speaker 1: Way like my first pass was like a like a,
Speaker 1: tip which actually funny.
Speaker 5: Enough So harper's, sister that's her, boyfriend is the guy
Speaker 5: who tipped. That so and then he sacked me later
Speaker 5: on in the, Game SO i gotta live with that.
Speaker 5: One because now he's going to the. LEAGUE i can't
Speaker 5: get my get.
Speaker 2: BACK i, will.
Speaker 5: But i'd say as the season went, on like figuring
Speaker 5: out Like, OKAY i can't like try and bulldoze like
Speaker 5: every Single big ten team Like. Illinois all of a,
Speaker 5: SUDDEN i come out Of. Illinois i've got like a
Speaker 5: ruptured burst of, sack like bruised ribs all up and, Down, Like,
Speaker 5: OKAY i probably need to change my style here a little,
Speaker 5: bit you, know maybe start sliding and getting out of. Bounds,
Speaker 5: Yeah i'd say that was one of the big things
Speaker 5: THAT i learned.
Speaker 1: Was the if we, die we die speech during the
Speaker 1: before The michigan. Game.
Speaker 2: YEAH i.
Speaker 1: Hated asking that.
Speaker 3: Question, yeah the boys died that. Day you, got you,
Speaker 3: Got you got a couple OFS i don't want to
Speaker 3: keep her out on.
Speaker 2: Them.
Speaker 3: Off you got quarterback, room how's the quarterback?
Speaker 1: Vibe, Like Like i'll, say.
Speaker 3: WHEN i signed with The, TITANS i remember sitting in
Speaker 3: a bar AND i was fired up to play for The.
Speaker 3: Titans And Rashaun evans gets drafted in the first. Round
Speaker 3: titans trade up.
Speaker 1: To go get.
Speaker 3: Him me and my mental state was obviously competition's, Competition
Speaker 3: but in that split second moment you're Kind god damn,
Speaker 3: it talk about the quarterback room and having somebody Like
Speaker 3: Dylan rayola when the day he the day he committed To.
Speaker 5: Nebraska, YEAH i MEAN i think if anything like him,
Speaker 5: committing you, know with all of THE i guess following
Speaker 5: that he had all the, offers you, know being committed
Speaker 5: To georgia you, know, powerhouse.
Speaker 1: You, know and us flipping.
Speaker 5: HIM i think that just shows like how far we've
Speaker 5: come as a, program what we showed last, Season like
Speaker 5: like if you've got that many opportunities and you choose
Speaker 5: to come here to a team that you, know we,
Speaker 5: didn't we didn't show everything that we could last, year
Speaker 5: but like you, Know dylan had all of those and
Speaker 5: chose to come. Here LIKE i think that shows like
Speaker 5: how our process is. WORKING i, mean on top of,
Speaker 5: that besides, YOU i Mean Danny, kaitlyn you, know great.
Speaker 5: GUY i Mean i've Known danny since he was a
Speaker 5: freshman in high, school you. KNOW i, mean so like
Speaker 5: WE'RE i think we're starting to like hit the rise
Speaker 5: of like you want to come To. Nebraska like, yeah you,
Speaker 5: KNOW i think when it was my, class me And Thomas,
Speaker 5: fedoni like we were from, here you, know we and
Speaker 5: a lot of the guys who came here and are
Speaker 5: still here were from. Here, like we want to track
Speaker 5: national national recruiting because, obviously you, know not.
Speaker 1: Everyone you. Can't it's hard to feel the team with
Speaker 1: Just midwest. GUYS i mean it's, possible it might. Be
Speaker 1: it's probably a pretty school.
Speaker 4: Possible, yeah but, NO i feel you see it too
Speaker 4: often nowadays.
Speaker 2: Though, yeah state not the whole.
Speaker 1: Team the best you can do is like WHAT iowa.
Speaker 2: MAYBE, iwa as far as you can.
Speaker 4: Get what depends on how many in state scholarships they
Speaker 4: can give to like it, all it always depends on how.
Speaker 1: Many walk ons are. Here, now my, guess the best
Speaker 1: guess would be around. Fifty so you guys probably have
Speaker 1: like what one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty kids
Speaker 1: on the. Squad, yeah, yeah it's, deep. BRO i remember
Speaker 1: WHEN i was, senior read like one hundred and. Forty
Speaker 1: it was like. Fifty, like, dude there would be a
Speaker 1: depth chart for scout. Team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no that's college for.
Speaker 1: You isn't that? Crazy, yeah like my, dad some players
Speaker 1: aren't like.
Speaker 4: That but it's all red, shirt your gray shirt here.
Speaker 4: Too i've, HAD i, know one gray, shirt.
Speaker 2: You know one gray? Shirt, yeah but what's a great.
Speaker 5: Shirt you walk on like your first year but like
Speaker 5: you're promised the scholarship like after ye got you got.
Speaker 5: You but like my dad tell me stories like there'd
Speaker 5: be two hundred guys and like the early nineties and
Speaker 5: they just like if you, leave go, ahead like just
Speaker 5: bring someone up to replace, here.
Speaker 1: A Different it's crazy you got any? More, delanny he
Speaker 1: did Great spring.
Speaker 3: League talk about the Spring, league it's kind of something
Speaker 3: that's you, know it's like a fascinating. Thing like in
Speaker 3: a couple of The husker group chats and men we
Speaker 3: were kind of talking about. It but it seems kind
Speaker 3: of LIKE i feel like you get guys to buy,
Speaker 3: in especially like when it's a down part of the.
Speaker 5: Year, YEAH i mean it's hard especially with you, know
Speaker 5: some of the older. Guys you, know they don't it's
Speaker 5: like spraying they're still aching from last. YEAR i, mean but,
Speaker 5: YEAH i think the Spring league like bringing that competitive
Speaker 5: juice bag like it is like it is.
Speaker 1: Fun LIKE i think It's.
Speaker 5: Tuesday we went for LIKE i think like two, hours
Speaker 5: like OF i think it was just straight spring.
Speaker 1: LEAGUE i was LIKE i want, more like would you
Speaker 1: guys just play each? Other? Yes and like how does it?
Speaker 3: Work talk about LIKE i see THERE'S, gms there's director of. Scouting,
Speaker 3: yeah there's all these different things like what what transactionally
Speaker 3: can happen in the Spring.
Speaker 5: League so like if you come in, FIRST i think
Speaker 5: for the, week then you get eight protections and two.
Speaker 5: Trades So Rattlesnake boys right now we're in, First Rattlesnake,
Speaker 5: boys and then the other two old Gold knights and
Speaker 5: the Bug eaters they're still battling to catch. Up so
Speaker 5: like if you're in, LAST i think you only get
Speaker 5: like like two, protections but you get like six trades or.
Speaker 3: Something so when you say, protections that like say we're protecting,
Speaker 3: you you can't be traded or. Acquired, Yes and so
Speaker 3: the only part that's different is the quarterbacks are locked
Speaker 3: in like you THEY i, can't, Right i'm A rattlesnake.
Speaker 1: Boy you can't just.
Speaker 2: Stack the roster your quarterbacks just like Some nebraska talk or.
Speaker 1: What so it just started rule.
Speaker 3: This year implemented the spring. LEAGUE i probably to juice
Speaker 3: up for, competition because you know when you're in when
Speaker 3: you're in spring, ball like you're, practicing you're doing your,
Speaker 3: thing but it can get a little dull because it's
Speaker 3: like we're not gonna win anything in the. Spring but
Speaker 3: he's broken it. Up there's three teams in The Spring,
Speaker 3: league and each of them have a. Roster is that
Speaker 3: who you practice with each?
Speaker 5: Day so we do like we still have Like indie
Speaker 5: and you, know just some like regular like nine on,
Speaker 5: seven just regular. Drills but, then LIKE i, said it's
Speaker 5: only like forty five practice and after that then we
Speaker 5: transition To spring.
Speaker 1: League so then you get.
Speaker 3: With your team and you run all this stuff and
Speaker 3: THEN i guess what once a week you have like
Speaker 3: where you guys play each other in. Games, NO i
Speaker 3: mean so, far it's just been like, situations which is
Speaker 3: like what Coach rule, loves like.
Speaker 1: Right he loves third, down red, Zone like we killed
Speaker 1: him in red.
Speaker 3: Zone but so, yeah like The spring, league and there's
Speaker 3: just a point system within those within the situational. Ball
Speaker 3: and then if you come out on first in a,
Speaker 3: week it's it's ran kind of like a, league like
Speaker 3: you get.
Speaker 1: To protect eight.
Speaker 3: Guys it's just SO i guess it seems like a
Speaker 3: way just for the fellas to have.
Speaker 1: Fun so it's kind of like compete with something.
Speaker 4: Like a red and white, game but practice almost every
Speaker 4: day pretty.
Speaker 1: Much so are you guys doing the red and white
Speaker 1: game or is it the spring? LEAGUE i have no.
Speaker 1: CLUE i kind of hope it's springly like LIKE i,
Speaker 1: WANT i want.
Speaker 5: The rattlesnak, boys LIKE i love like it, Is like
Speaker 5: it's fun BECAUSE i usually red and. White like it's
Speaker 5: kind of like, tiered like you got kind of the
Speaker 5: starters versus the second d or something right and like
Speaker 5: here like like you have no like it could be
Speaker 5: your number one receiver versus like the worst corner on the.
Speaker 5: Team like it's like the teams are like so like
Speaker 5: mismatch kind of, Yeah LIKE i don't. Know the only
Speaker 5: part that's like constant is the old. Line got you
Speaker 5: like the old, line like the ONE o line is
Speaker 5: the ONE o, Line like you can't trade different guys, out.
Speaker 1: So if you protect the, line you get to protect
Speaker 1: the entire. Line, well they made.
Speaker 5: It they made it because they recognized that the old,
Speaker 5: Line like how big of a deal that? Is, so
Speaker 5: like they switched the old line through the teams through the,
Speaker 5: weeks so.
Speaker 4: They got to go and play on every team that's
Speaker 4: starting on. Line, well it gives you an. Advantage that's
Speaker 4: kind OF i mean that's. Fair, yeah, yeah you get
Speaker 4: to start line very much.
Speaker 2: Fair because you know you're going with the back, end you,
Speaker 2: know even with THE d. Line you. Know, okay it's.
Speaker 2: Tough it's.
Speaker 3: Tough oh What i'm trying to Think harper is not.
Speaker 3: Here BUT i was gonna have you guys rattle off
Speaker 3: a pet peeve that you had of each.
Speaker 1: Other what's a pet peeve apart that you have with A?
Speaker 5: Harper So harper just has like non stop, energy like
Speaker 5: like she's like always, moving like always, talking like that's
Speaker 5: something LIKE i love about.
Speaker 1: Her.
Speaker 5: Yah but at the same, time it's, like, okay it's
Speaker 5: like eleven, thirty like settle down, now Like i'm trying
Speaker 5: to like and she's just like going. Off but, actually i'd,
Speaker 5: say Now i'm thinking about my number one pet peeve
Speaker 5: Of harper is during, movies like will not stop.
Speaker 1: Asking questions like what is? He what is he doing?
Speaker 1: HERE i don't, Know i'm watching the same movie. Man,
Speaker 1: yeah let's let's what you can find.
Speaker 3: Out, yeah but it's, crazy like the conversations and topics
Speaker 3: always come alive like right when we're laying our head
Speaker 3: on the pillow and, said what where was this any
Speaker 3: other time the? Day like we're trying to go to bed, Now,
Speaker 3: yeah what would you what would she? Say as a
Speaker 3: pet peeve that she has a.
Speaker 5: View, OH i know this one for, Sure like she
Speaker 5: hates like how sometimes LIKE i just like it seems
Speaker 5: LIKE i just like do not care like.
Speaker 1: You GOTTA i can say that's all of.
Speaker 2: Us, Yeah LIKE.
Speaker 5: I don't, know just like that's kind of been like
Speaker 5: the WAY i was SINCE i was. Born like sometimes
Speaker 5: LIKE i just Like i'm in like my own they
Speaker 5: call it like our old strengthena she's called me a space.
Speaker 1: Kid it LIKE i just kind of like go off
Speaker 1: into my own world and like she'll ask me a.
Speaker 5: QUESTION i, MEAN i think a lot of guys do,
Speaker 5: this but it's just like it just hits the aar
Speaker 5: and it goes right.
Speaker 2: Back.
Speaker 1: YEAH i think that's.
Speaker 2: It it's a lot of it's a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of. Men oh yeah, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Boys THAT i miss, Anything. HEIRICH i appreciate, you. BRO
Speaker 3: i appreciate. Y'all, yeah, man thanks for coming. On Tell
Speaker 3: harper we missed her. Though all, Right welcome back another
Speaker 3: episode Of busts with The boys At Spring. Tour we
Speaker 3: have the psycho on, Himself Nash Nash, nutmaker.
Speaker 1: The Polar Bear, man The Polar bear bro what.
Speaker 3: Psycho, well usually when you do two sport, athletes you
Speaker 3: got like whether it's football and, baseball you got. Basketball
Speaker 3: but rarely do you hear about football and wrestling at
Speaker 3: the college. Level why why why wrestling with being A
Speaker 3: d lineman in college.
Speaker 7: Football, yeah that's honestly something That, Mike, yeah don't be.
Speaker 7: Scared it's just it's honestly SOMETHING i never THOUGHT i
Speaker 7: would do in, college like BECAUSE i was getting recruited and,
Speaker 7: Stuff LIKE i Knew manning through the recruiting. Process he
Speaker 7: was trying to get me to wrestle and play, football
Speaker 7: AND i was, like IF i want to be like
Speaker 7: really good at one of these sports at this, level
Speaker 7: Like i'm gonna have to pick. One SO i ended
Speaker 7: up going with. Football and then, yeah AFTER i would,
Speaker 7: Game manning just text me like out of the blue
Speaker 7: and was, like give me a. Call AND i was,
Speaker 7: like what what could this possibly? Be like what does
Speaker 7: he wanted to talk to me? For And he's, LIKE
Speaker 7: i just Said he's, LIKE i want to want you
Speaker 7: to h give it a, shot like just come and try,
Speaker 7: it see how it. Goes and SO i was like,
Speaker 7: fuck like fuck, it like let's, go let's do. It
Speaker 7: like and so talk To rule and, everyone And rule
Speaker 7: was like all. IN i didn't even have to like
Speaker 7: bring it up to him here because TNIGHT i told
Speaker 7: te night before And TEEN i talked To rule AND
Speaker 7: i texted. HER i was, like, HEY i come to
Speaker 7: swing up and talk to. Me and he's, like is
Speaker 7: this about? Wrestling AND i was like, Yeah he's LIKE i,
Speaker 7: yes like go do. It he's, like you don't even
Speaker 7: need to come talk to me if you want to
Speaker 7: so AND i was like all, right screw, it let's
Speaker 7: go do. It and it Was. Yeah it was pretty.
Speaker 4: CRAZY i, mean coming from high school that you had
Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty six wins no losses for state
Speaker 4: for state, CHAMPIONSHIPS i mean it had to be in
Speaker 4: your destiny that you was going to.
Speaker 2: Wrestle at some.
Speaker 4: Point did you did you feel that or did you
Speaker 4: think that football was just gonna be?
Speaker 7: IT i thought football was going to be, it especially
Speaker 7: like three years without like even thinking about, wrestling thinking
Speaker 7: that it was over, with and then it just kind
Speaker 7: of coming, along like it just just kind of worked
Speaker 7: out and kind of happened that. WAY i had NO
Speaker 7: i no feeling at all THAT i was going to
Speaker 7: end up wrestling.
Speaker 4: Again how how how hard was it to lose forty
Speaker 4: pounds though right after the, season to lose forty drop
Speaker 4: forty pounds to get into wrestling that?
Speaker 2: Fast, yeah it sucked right.
Speaker 1: Away like right away it was.
Speaker 7: Terrible it reminded you, like, oh this is, why, yeah
Speaker 7: this is WHY i didn't want to do this in.
Speaker 7: College but, no it. Was it sucked right. Away but
Speaker 7: with the help of Like christen And ron the wrestling,
Speaker 7: nutritions like they made it super. Easy they got me
Speaker 7: set up with when and what to, eat what, times like,
Speaker 7: everything like they helped me out so much of. That
Speaker 7: so gets getting used to that new diet right away.
Speaker 7: Sucked but then ONCE i got, rolling they just the
Speaker 7: weight just kind of melted. Off just basically doing WHAT
Speaker 7: i need to do to get in shape for, wrestling you,
Speaker 7: know getting on the, bike doing extra, workouts doing all,
Speaker 7: that like that took care of. Itself then with the new,
Speaker 7: diet so it just kind of started falling. Off and
Speaker 7: then ONCE i got down to, weight after a couple of,
Speaker 7: weeks my body kind of adjusted and SO i was
Speaker 7: just kind of hanging around that. Weight it wasn't too
Speaker 7: difficult after.
Speaker 1: That what's the craziest thing you've done the cut?
Speaker 7: WEIGHT i haven't done nothing too. CRAZY i what's the
Speaker 7: craziest thing you've? Seen, Oh i've seen back in high,
Speaker 7: School i've seen some guys do some wild. Shit like
Speaker 7: they'd walk around all day just spitting in a, bottle
Speaker 7: and they'd go and they'd sit in a sauna like sweatsuit,
Speaker 7: on like just sitting in a, sauna like just the
Speaker 7: complete opposite way you're supposed to do. It like they're
Speaker 7: just killing their bodies UNTIL i get down to.
Speaker 3: Weight but talk about the differences in training, regiment because,
Speaker 3: obviously football you're training for like six seconds at a.
Speaker 3: Time wrestling is like a whole different.
Speaker 7: Animal, yeah it was like a whole different thing. Obviously like,
Speaker 7: yeah like you said, football like we're you're doing some
Speaker 7: sprints or doing some of. That but it's like WHEN
Speaker 7: i first went in there, mating it's, like, hey let's
Speaker 7: just me and, you let's hit.
Speaker 2: A little bike.
Speaker 7: Workout i'm like, thinking all, right a little bike workout
Speaker 7: twenty minutes and. Out he had me on that bike
Speaker 7: for an. Hour we're doing like twenty seconds, on twenty seconds,
Speaker 7: off thirty seconds, on thirty seconds. Off we're in there
Speaker 7: and get to the end of the, bike says thousand
Speaker 7: calories burned them out like twenty five. Miles i'm, like,
Speaker 7: oh little bike, Workout like it was just like straight
Speaker 7: from football, too straight after lifting with football in the.
Speaker 1: Morning so it's just it was that was the biggest.
Speaker 7: Change. Obviously it's just like the type of conditioning you were.
Speaker 7: Doing it was like because in wrestling you're going out
Speaker 7: seven minutes like pretty much all you have for seven minutes,
Speaker 7: straight and so that type of, conditioning that type of
Speaker 7: training is just a whole different animal compared to what you're.
Speaker 3: Doing did you ever like after that bike workout where you're, like,
Speaker 3: ah MAYBE i, chose MAYBE i made the wrong.
Speaker 7: Decision you, know there was definitely some days in there
Speaker 7: like where it was, like, WELL i get done with
Speaker 7: lyft to go over wrestle and then it's, like, OH
Speaker 7: i need to get on the. Bike like there's some
Speaker 7: of those days where you're just like, what like what
Speaker 7: AM i. Doing you're LIKE i don't need to do
Speaker 7: like this that LIKE i have no reason to be doing,
Speaker 7: this but, YEAH i just LIKE i Love after that
Speaker 7: first match Against, wyoming it just like all those feelings
Speaker 7: like WHY i love wrestling and like WHY i WANT
Speaker 7: i wanted to do, it like they just came back
Speaker 7: and then after that it was it was. Easy it
Speaker 7: was LIKE i freaking love this, shit, Man like this
Speaker 7: is this is so.
Speaker 2: Awesome you can.
Speaker 4: TELL i, mean you say you missed three years your
Speaker 4: first year Back Golden, Nationals like how was?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 1: Like oh that was that was so.
Speaker 7: Surreal LIKE i grew up watching the N ncaa, tournament
Speaker 7: like grew up watching, it never been in, person so
Speaker 7: first time ever going in person and also competing at
Speaker 7: it was just like a crazy like it was just
Speaker 7: such a surreal moment for, me like growing up idolizing
Speaker 7: those guys and then to be one of those guys
Speaker 7: at that tournament WAS i mean it was.
Speaker 3: Incredible, yeah differences in the coach maning and coach rule
Speaker 3: head coaching.
Speaker 7: STYLES i MEAN i would say Just manning's a. Nut
Speaker 7: Yeah manning.
Speaker 2: He's oh, yeah he's.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable but, yeah it's JUST.
Speaker 7: I feel like the biggest difference is just like the
Speaker 7: amount of players like football has to, coach and then
Speaker 7: like the amount of guys on the wrestling, Team like
Speaker 7: it's not Like manning has to manage one hundred and thirty,
Speaker 7: Guys Like manning's in, there like once you get down
Speaker 7: kind of in the nitty gritty of the, season like
Speaker 7: there's really only those ten starters that you're really focusing
Speaker 7: on and trying to get, Better whereas with, football it's
Speaker 7: LIKE i have this entire TEAM i need to.
Speaker 1: Manage so it's just the mindset.
Speaker 7: Of kind of how you do things is a little,
Speaker 7: different just because of like the big changes in like
Speaker 7: the numbers of guys.
Speaker 2: You have to deal.
Speaker 3: With what do you feel like your teammates in the
Speaker 3: locker room of a football locker room could learn about
Speaker 3: spending a season in a wrestling locker.
Speaker 7: Room for, me the THING i like most about the
Speaker 7: Wrestling and it's like this over at football, too but
Speaker 7: LIKE i noticed it more over there is like those
Speaker 7: those guys that were All, americans those guys that are
Speaker 7: the best in that room are like the exact examples
Speaker 7: of what you, Want like every person on your your
Speaker 7: team to be like those guys Like, Ridge Lenny, silas
Speaker 7: all those guys that were the best guys in that
Speaker 7: room were the best, Practice they were the best, practicers
Speaker 7: the hardest. Workers like those guys were what you want
Speaker 7: your rest of your team to. Be and so it's
Speaker 7: like that over a football but just being over there
Speaker 7: and like wrestling such like it's more of an individual.
Speaker 2: Sport obviously than.
Speaker 7: Football so for like those guys to take that same
Speaker 7: approach is, like, no this is Like i'm doing this
Speaker 7: for like the, team not just myself over. There just
Speaker 7: like it really inspired me to be Like, god, like
Speaker 7: if they're doing that over, there LIKE i need to.
Speaker 7: Be we need to be doing that like double time
Speaker 7: over here because it is such a team.
Speaker 3: Sport, yeah because you get to where individuals could, be
Speaker 3: you'd be so talented on the football field to where
Speaker 3: you might not be putting in that same work, ethic
Speaker 3: whereas like a, wrestler it's like you're, saying and the
Speaker 3: hardest worker are the best wrestlers are have to be
Speaker 3: and are like the hardest.
Speaker 7: Workers they have to be just like by the nature
Speaker 7: of the sport because like if they're not being the
Speaker 7: hardest worker in the, room like it's gonna come out.
Speaker 1: Like they're gonna.
Speaker 7: Whatever they might not they might not, win they might
Speaker 7: not win a match that they should have won or
Speaker 7: whatever it. Is so it's like that was that's WHY
Speaker 7: i love about that culture over there so, much as
Speaker 7: like those guys are the guys not only wrestling but workouts.
Speaker 4: Everything who do you look who do you look up
Speaker 4: to in both, sports football and, Wrestling who inspires you
Speaker 4: like to be great and on the.
Speaker 2: Field and then and on the mat as, Well.
Speaker 7: Like with with football and, wrestling for, me it's it's
Speaker 7: not so much like a certain, player a certain.
Speaker 1: Person it's it's.
Speaker 2: More so.
Speaker 7: It's more so my my family that like that's like
Speaker 7: Why i'm out here doing WHAT i do just because
Speaker 7: especially my mom and, Dad like those those two people
Speaker 7: are the most important people in my life and they
Speaker 7: love nothing more than coming and supporting me and my
Speaker 7: younger brother and like all everything we, do like it
Speaker 7: doesn't matter if it's, football, wrestling like my mom would
Speaker 7: gets fired up WHEN i get like AN a on my,
Speaker 7: Test like no matter What i'm, doing like it's to
Speaker 7: see me and my little brother.
Speaker 1: Succeeding is what makes.
Speaker 7: Them the happiest parents they could. Be and so just
Speaker 7: to continue to compete and be the best human BEING
Speaker 7: i can be in best, athlete best. Everything like that's
Speaker 7: those two people are WHY i act the WAY i
Speaker 7: am and like WHO i am.
Speaker 4: In South dakota right born and raised family filled In South.
Speaker 4: Dakota is that where you got Polar? Bear from being
Speaker 4: In South dakoda?
Speaker 7: Came that came like in high. School it was JUST
Speaker 7: i mean it was a, big big blonde kid like
Speaker 7: some of the like rest like some of the people
Speaker 7: in the wrestling community or some of like the wrestling,
Speaker 7: Moms like one of them just called me that one,
Speaker 7: day and so it kind of started stick and my
Speaker 7: dad like started hashtagging the Polar bear like on all
Speaker 7: the stuff you post about. Me and so When nebraska
Speaker 7: fans found that, out of, course like they just.
Speaker 2: Blew they love. It so, yeah that's kind of how that.
Speaker 2: Started what's it a talking?
Speaker 1: Football what's it been like playing For Coach white and his?
Speaker 3: Staff, NO i, see you guys made a big jump
Speaker 3: last year, Defensively like.
Speaker 1: Talk to us about how that's.
Speaker 7: Been it's been, Great like getting to know Coach Coach
Speaker 7: white last year coach T, night all those guys like
Speaker 7: they're just as good as people as their, coaches like
Speaker 7: they're they Liked. Tennight he lets us be ourselves in that,
Speaker 7: room like when it's time to, work like it's time to,
Speaker 7: work but like we have a, lot we have a
Speaker 7: lot of fun in that. Room AND i think that's
Speaker 7: why we're so close and why we play the way
Speaker 7: we do is because it's not like we're at freaking boot,
Speaker 7: Camp like it doesn't have to all be perfect all the.
Speaker 2: Time like T.
Speaker 7: Night he allows us to bring our personality to it
Speaker 7: while working hard and just continue to do the.
Speaker 2: Things that we.
Speaker 7: Do and that's WHY i think the defensive line is
Speaker 7: just getting better and better every day because we're just
Speaker 7: getting so much.
Speaker 2: Closer what's Te night like as a?
Speaker 1: COACH i played with him In, Washington, yeah it was
Speaker 1: his last.
Speaker 7: Year, no he's a.
Speaker 3: Budget was definitely. Different he had won a Super, bowl
Speaker 3: so he the. DIVISION i have a Teen night pot?
Speaker 3: Roast do you guys go on pot?
Speaker 1: Roast? NO i just, yeah he probably don't want.
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Speaker 3: On he just take the fine and he just say
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Speaker 2: Now he was.
Speaker 3: Nice he was a massive human. Being you know, what
Speaker 3: what what's it like playing for ten.
Speaker 7: Nighte, Uh it's it's awesome playing with te Night. IS
Speaker 7: i mean he is probably one of the funniest Humans
Speaker 7: i've ever been.
Speaker 2: Around like he, is he is.
Speaker 7: Hilarious and but when it's when it's time to, work
Speaker 7: like it's time to, work like he gets. Honest but,
Speaker 7: yeah he he allows us to have so much fun
Speaker 7: in that. Room like here's where just in the amount
Speaker 7: of times of the entire room just busts out laughing
Speaker 7: because of something tonight or whoever, Side like it's just.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable you got, uh you got, One, no you got?
Speaker 1: It what do you? See?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 3: Uh what identity do you see the defense taking on this?
Speaker 3: Year being in year Two Coach white system.
Speaker 7: Just going out there and being the baddest beast defense
Speaker 7: on the, Field like we're Not we're not gonna let
Speaker 7: other defenses out play. Us we're gonna go out there
Speaker 7: and we're gonna, dominate dominate the line of, scrimmage dominating the.
Speaker 7: Secondary we're gonna just go out there no matter what
Speaker 7: situation we're. In we could be backed. Up we could
Speaker 7: be on the goal, line like we're going out there
Speaker 7: like excited to play, Football like it doesn't matter what
Speaker 7: the other opponent's, doing what what's happening on the offensive
Speaker 7: side of the, Ball we're going out there to, dominate have,
Speaker 7: fun and just be excited to be out there on the.
Speaker 1: Field how do you see your role developing as a
Speaker 1: leader now that you're.
Speaker 7: Older just continue to be more of a vocal. Leader
Speaker 7: that's something THAT i haven't. BEEN i haven't been as
Speaker 7: good at in the. Past i've always been a, big
Speaker 7: lead by example, guy AND i think it's time to
Speaker 7: kind of take that next step into like be that
Speaker 7: more of that vocal, leader getting on guys when shit's not,
Speaker 7: right and just continue to develop that.
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